The author of The Last American Man (a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award) chronicles her quest for spiritual healing following a wracking divorce and a heartbreaking affair in this irreverent, self-deprecating travelogue, which has been on the New York Times Best Seller list since 2006 and has been adapted as a major motion picture starring Julia Roberts. Elizabeth Gilbert travels to Italy, primarily for the heavenly cuisine; to India, to learn meditation from a favorite yogi; and to Indonesia, where she studies under a healer and falls in enlightened love.

"A captivating storyteller with a gift for enlivening metaphors, Gilbert is Anne Lamott's hip, yoga-practicing, footloose younger sister, and readers will laugh and cry as she recounts her nervy and outlandish experiences and profiles the extraordinary people she meets. As Gilbert switches from gelato to kundalini Shakti to herbal cures Balinese-style, she ponders the many paths to divinity, the true nature of happiness, and the boon of good-hearted, sexy love. Gilbert's sensuous and audacious spiritual odyssey is as deeply pleasurable as it is enlightening."—Booklist (starred review)